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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · Nov 16

A definitive tier ranking of how all the alphabet books in my house handle the letter X. 🧵

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ceej @ceej.online · 4h

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 5h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 4h

I definitely think of Johnny Cash as way cooler than both those guys??

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 4h

All the next day Toad sang songs to his seeds.

Toad, literally singing in the rain, serenades his seeds.

From "The Garden"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 8h

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 5h

Sorry luddites but this technology is here to stay and if you are not learning to use these tools then you are falling behind.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 6h

it's kind of wild that a guy died a little while ago and the government swore we would reap the whirlwind and that his widow would lead a howling army of valkyries across the galaxy and then the most you heard about it since was the secretary of domestic war saying they arrested the wife of antifa

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 5h

I'm proud to live in one of the most autistic states

Thomas [redacted] DO @tom.medsky.social · 11h

I can't believe I have to address this but here is a map of circumcision rates by state (left) and a map of diagnosed autism rates by state (right). The western US has the fewest circs and moderate frequency of autism. West Virginia has the most circumcisions and one of the lowest rates of autism.

A US map showing circumcision rate by state in general the lowest rates are in florida and western states and the highest rates are in the midwest and west virginia. Green represents low rates and red represents higher rates.

A map of the US showing autism rates by state. West virginia which has the most circumcisions is relatively low. White represents low rates and blue represents higher rates.

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sam @wwwwww.website · 5h

It’s 8pm in early October. It’s 66° and you’re on your deck in a flannel, listening to the frogs and The National while you sip rye from a miniature jelly jar. The kids are asleep.

It’ll be time to get up for work soon.

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 7h

This is what the Washington Post is

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 8h

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 7h

What are your autumn movies? These are mine but I need more

[ ] Over the Garden Wall
[ ] Knives Out
[ ] Poirot Hallowe'en Party
[ ] When Harry Met Sally
[ ] You've Got Mail
[ ] Clue
[ ] Fantastic Mr Fox
[ ] Coco
[ ] It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
[ ] Charlie's Brown Thanksgiving
[ ] First Thanksgiving Charlie Brown
[ ] The curious creations of Christine McConnell
[ ] Arsenic and Old Lace
[ ] Halloweentown
[ ] Heathers

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 8h

Blocked and reported

Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 8h

Bouncing a baby while drinking red wine is very tricky. Gotta remember to jiggle my left hand but not my right

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 8h

“Baby in her placenta” is pretty bad for a HHS secretary but it’s arguably worse for a guy with six kids. It’s impossible to not learn this stuff as a dad if you’re even remotely paying attention just once.

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 8h

I would

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe it's because im in the biz (middle school English teacher)

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 13h

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 8h

Why am I one of the 24 accounts followed by the dictionary

A screenshot of Merriam-Webster's bluesky account. It is following 24 people, including me

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 9h

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 11h

I would never side against the textile community

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 11h

Or it's the primary (first) thing you read about it. Are they going to tell us children attend primmary school??

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dido, lamenting 🥀🔥💀🪦💔 @ksbarkley.bsky.social · 11h

This is false. It's PRY-mer regardless. Nobody talks like that. Stop it.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11h

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 11h

I am aware that one of the Green brothers enraged the knitters, bc I have seen many thumbnails of videos purporting it discuss the drama. I haven't looked into it bc I think it's much funnier to just have the vague knowledge that the textile community is at war with a vlog brother

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Grosdoriane @grosdoriane.bsky.social · 11h

this is the greatest day of my life

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